Mountfields Lodge School

Aim High, Reach for the Sky

Mountfields Lodge School

Charitable Work

Whole-School Christmas Jumper Day 2018

It was a warm December day this year so there were lots of Christmas T-shirts not just jumpers! The donations taken for this came to £277.00!

Whole-School Children in Need 2018

This year everyone in school wore their pyjamas to raise money for this great charity and there were many delicious cakes and goodies baked by the children and sold at break times over the week. We are very pleased to have raised £721.00 this year!

Remembrance Day 2018

We recognise this day/date each year and aid the fundraising of The British Legion through the selling of poppies – and this year stationery items!

Also this year we have been part of a project led by Charnwood Borough Council who commissioned an artist to produce an armature, in the form of a life-like horse, similar to a War Horse. The finished horse, ‘Songster’ played a major role in Charnwood’s commemoration of WW1 as part of an event on Remembrance Sunday in Loughborough (11th November 2018). Songster was covered with poppies made by children in the locality including some from Mountfields Lodge.

The remaining poppies our children made have formed a display in the school foyer.

Harvest Appeal 2018

This year our Harvest Appeal was is in support of ‘ PACE food bank’

This is a charity that helps the local community by providing emergency food parcels to people who are in genuine need of help. The children brought in tinned foods that could be included in the food parcels.

Book Fair

We do make money on our School Book Fair and any commission that we get is used to buy books to put straight in to the Class Book Selections OR in to the School Library. In 2017 we took our commission based upon takings of £1044.13! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS TOTAL; it helps promote reading at home and in school.

Cancer Research UK

In association with Braiswick Photographic as part of their 50th Year Anniversary Celebrations we raised £85 for Cancer Research UK.

Sports Relief

Sporting activities were undertaken throughout the week across the whole school to help raise awareness in our pupils of those less fortunate than themselves and to show how sport can be used to help change young people's lives.

On Friday 23rd March all pupils and staff wore sports kit to take part in the Mountfields Lodge Squirrel Mile, an activity organised by a group of Y6 pupils who recognised that children have the power to help other children IF they put their minds to it. We raised £322.92!

Wheelie Bins for Rainbows 2018

In support of a local children’s and young person’s hospice pupils and parents have been busy collecting clothes and household items for recycling and re-purposing.

We wanted to help raise awareness of the needs of others and to help our pupils understand (once again) the power of 'the collective' to bring about change (and the role of the individual in that process).It was also important that our pupils understand how people can help make the most difficult of times as happy as possible for families and individuals. We collected an impressive 60 bags of items to recycle and re-purpose